Hi experts, I'm running 2.6.34-rc7 mainline kernel on SB1250 (Rev B2) board. And, I use the default sb1250 kernel config (sb1250-swarm_defconfig). So, 64 bit kernel is used. During kernel loading module got bus error, see below log: root@bcm1250a-1:/root> insmod firmware_class.ko DBE physical address: 0080e87020 Data bus error, epc == ffffffff801053e0, ra == ffffffff801725d0 Oops[#1]: Cpu 0 $ 0 : 0000000000000000 0000000014001fe0 ffffffff8051d308 0000000000000000 $ 4 : a800000080e97000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000002 $ 8 : ffffffff80515868 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 a80000000fb0c030 $12 : 0000000000000010 ffffffff804ab728 a80000000f81ba00 0000000000000001 $16 : 0000000000000001 ffffffffc0001950 0000000000000000 c000000000005000 $20 : 0000000000000000 a80000000faabd90 c000000000008d18 c000000000007e98 $24 : 0000000000000000 0000000010010598 $28 : a80000000faa8000 a80000000faabd50 ffffffffc0001968 ffffffff801725d0 Hi : ffffffffffffffff Lo : fffffffffffffff0 epc : ffffffff801053e0 memcpy+0x0/0x4 Not tainted ra : ffffffff801725d0 load_module+0x1240/0x1c30 Status: 14001fe3 KX SX UX KERNEL EXL IE Cause : 0080801c PrId : 01040102 (SiByte SB1) Modules linked in: Process insmod (pid: 1799, threadinfo=a80000000faa8000, task=a80000000f898800, tls=00000000100a7480) Stack : 0000000000000000 ffffffff80484190 ffffffffc0001738 ffffffff00000003 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000200000000 0000017f00000180 c000000000008d58 ffffffff803ec728 0000000000001cf8 ffffffff80515868 a80000000f8d14a0 0000000000001b60 0000000000000000 0000000000000029 000000000000002d 000000000000003b 000000000000003a c00000000000c008 a80000000f92aa20 c000000000007bba c000000000008a98 ffffffffc0004d88 ffffffff803ec718 ffffffff803ec718 ffffffff801df1f8 00000000000076ce 00000000100a0ff8 00000000100a1008 ffffffff804b0000 000000007f9d0f11 0000000000000003 0000000000000000 00000000100d0bc0 0000000000000000 ffffffff80173048 00000000100a0ff8 00000000000076ce ... Call Trace: [<ffffffff801053e0>] memcpy+0x0/0x4 [<ffffffff801725d0>] load_module+0x1240/0x1c30 [<ffffffff80173048>] SyS_init_module+0x88/0x230 [<ffffffff80102ec4>] handle_sysn32+0x44/0x9c Code: 03e00008 00000000 00000000 <0080102d> cca00000 cc810000 2cca0008 30890007 cca00020 Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint Cache error exception on CPU 0: Cache error exception on CPU 0: c0_errorepc == 800000f0 c0_errctl == 40000000 dcache c0_cerr_d == 88801000 fill/wb, multi-err data-DBE c0_cerr_dpa == 0080e87000 Dcache index 0x1000 [Bank 2 Set 0x00] LRU > 1 2 0 3 > MRU 0 [PA 00004ad000] [state COH-SHD (0f)] raw tags: 1E724000-00000000004AC400 00-0000000000000000 9E-FFFFFFFFFFFFFED4 9E-FFFFFFFFFFFFFED4 4E-0000000000020002 1 [PA 000050f000] [state COH-SHD (0f)] raw tags: 1E724000-000000000050E400 EC-3E343C0A30207570 A7-203A202020302024 00-3030303030303030 00-3030303030303030 2 [PA 000f93d000] [state COH-SHD (0f)] raw tags: 1E724000-000000000F93C000 00-0000000000000000 00-FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF 00-FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF 00-FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF 3 [PA 000f8db000] [state COH-E-C (16)] raw tags: 2C724000-000000000F8DA000 84-FFFFFFFF80504000 84-FFFFFFFF80504000 84-FFFFFFFF80504000 84-FFFFFFFF80504000 ...didn't see indicated dcache problem Bus watcher error counters: 00000000 00030000 Last recorded signature: Request 00 from 0, answered by 7 with Dcode 4 Kernel panic - not syncing: unhandled cache error Rebooting in 5 seconds.. It seems bus error occurs when copying module since the memcpy is called by percpu_modcopy. I recalled that SB1250 prior C0 version has a TLB M3 workaround which caused kernel module loading fail, however, it seems Ralf committed a patch to solve this issue. See git log: commit 3d45285dd1ff4d4a1361b95e2d6508579a4402b5 Author: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Mar 23 17:56:38 2010 +0100 MIPS: Sibyte: Fix M3 TLB exception handler workaround. The M3 workaround needs to cmpare the region and VPN2 fields only. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> It seems this patch can't solve the issue, or this is another different bug? Thanks, Yang
